Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Choi et al. (USPN 2019/0103442).
With regard to claim 20,
Choi et al. disclose a display apparatus, comprising: a substrate (101); a plurality of pixels (P) having a plurality of subpixels (R,B,G,W); a pattern portion (108) disposed on the substrate and formed to be concave between the plurality of subpixels; and a reflective portion (of 115) disposed to be inclined on the pattern portion, wherein: the plurality of subpixels include a first layer (113) and a second layer (111); the first layer is adjacent to the reflective portion on the substrate (See fig. 4); the first layer includes a plurality of concave portions (See fig. 4); the second layer is on the first layer (see fig. 4); and an inclination angle of the reflective portion is proportional to a maximum thickness of the second layer and a thickness of the first layer in one of the plurality of concave portions (necessarily).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-19 are allowed.
Claims 21-25 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The prior art does not disclose nor render obvious, in combination with the other limitations of the claims, the inclination of the reflective portion being defined as claimed. Claim 1 is therefore allowed and claim 21 would be allowed if rewritten in independent form. Claims 2-19 are allowed due to their dependence upon claim 1 and claims 22-25 would be allowed due to their dependence upon claim 21.
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Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. USPN 2017/0155094, 2017/0125489.
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/CHRISTOPHER M RAABE/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2875
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